 | George Burnett - 1807
...(which I take to be my portion in this life) joined to the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written, to after times, as they should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these other ; that if I were certain to write as men... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807
...(which I take to be my portion in this life) joined to the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written, to after times, as they should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these other ; that if I were certain to write as men... | |
 | John Milton - 1807
...as appears to have exalted htm in his own opinion, and confirmed him in the hope, that, ' by labor and intense study, ' which,' says he, ' I take to be my portion tn this ; life, joined with a strong propensity of nature,' he might ' leave something so written to... | |
 | John Milton - 1809
...I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, 1 might perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these other ; that if I were certain to write as men... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810
...composi., tlons with such applause as appears to have exalted him in his own opinion, and confirmed him in the hope, that, " by labour and intense study,...nature," he might " leave something so written to after-times, " as they should not willingly let it die." It appears, in all his writings, that he had... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810
...in his own opinion, and confirmed him in the hope, that, " by labour and intense study, which," urs he, " I take to be my portion in this life, joined...nature," he might " leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die." It appears in all his writings thathe had the... | |
 | John Black - 1810
...that, by labour and intense study, joined with the strong propensity of nature," he " might perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die." The taste of the age, the example of his father, his own inclination, and the boldness of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811
...appears to have exalted him in his own opinion, and confirmed him in the hope, that, by labour £ 4 and intense study, which," says he, " I take to be...nature," he might " leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die." It appears in all his writings that he had the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811
...appears to have exalted him in his own opinion, and confirmed him in the hope, that, by labour E 4 " and intense study, which," says he, " I take to Be " my portion in this life, joined with a strong propen" sity of nature," he might " leave something so writ" ten to after-times, as they should not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816
...his compositions with such applause as appears to have exalted him in his own opinion, and confirmed him in the hope, that, " by labour and intense study,...life, "joined with a strong propensity of nature," he qiight " leave something so written to after-times, " as they should not willingly let it die." It... | |
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... by labour and intense study, which," says he, "I take to be my portion in this life, joined with a strong propensity of nature,'' he might "leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die. 
